How to get meeting notes into Obsidian
Obsidian is a vault of Markdown files, not a recorder, so it can't capture or transcribe a meeting on its own. To get meetings in, you need something that writes each one as a Markdown note. The cleanest setup skips the import step entirely by writing straight into your vault.
Does Obsidian have a meeting recorder or AI notes?
No. Obsidian stores and links Markdown files; it doesn't record audio, transcribe a call, or generate notes from a meeting. There's no built-in meeting recorder and no first-party AI note taker. What it's brilliant at is holding those notes once they exist: linked, searchable, and yours, as plain files on your disk.
So the question isn't whether Obsidian takes meeting notes. It's how the meeting becomes a Markdown note in your vault in the first place.
The Obsidian-native way: a folder of Markdown files
Because a vault is just Markdown files in a folder, the tidiest meeting-notes setup is a tool that writes each meeting as a Markdown file directly into that folder. No export, no sync plugin to babysit, no copy-paste. The note is a real file the moment the meeting ends, and Obsidian picks it up like any other.
How Peachy writes meetings straight into your vault
Peachy records your meetings on your Mac, with no bot, and writes each one as a speaker-labeled Markdown file with YAML frontmatter in a folder you choose. Point that folder at your vault, or a Meetings subfolder inside it, and every meeting shows up in Obsidian instantly, with a title, date and duration in its properties.
From there it's an ordinary note: link it, tag it, pull it into Dataview, search it alongside everything else. Nothing was imported and nothing can drift out of sync, because the file Peachy wrote and the note Obsidian shows you are the same file.
Sync from another tool, or write natively
If your meetings currently live in a cloud notetaker like Granola or Otter, getting them into Obsidian means syncing or exporting, usually through a community plugin, and some of those bring across the AI summary rather than the full transcript. It works, but it's a second moving part. Peachy skips it: the meeting is written into your vault as Markdown from the start, transcript and all.
Your own AI reads the same vault
The payoff of keeping meetings as plain Markdown is that your tools all read the same files. Obsidian shows them to you; your own Claude reads them in place over MCP; any AI you point at the folder can use them. One vault, one set of files, no copy that lives somewhere else.
Getting meetings into your Obsidian vault
| Sync from a cloud notetaker | Peachy writes natively | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup | A sync or export plugin | Point Peachy's folder at your vault |
| The note | Imported, can drift | The file itself, always current |
| Transcript vs summary | Sometimes only the summary | The full speaker-labeled transcript |
| Frontmatter | Depends on the tool | YAML frontmatter, so properties work |
| Your own AI | Reads after the sync | Reads the same vault files |
Frequently asked questions
- Does Obsidian have AI meeting notes or a recorder?
- No. Obsidian is a Markdown vault, not a recorder or transcriber. Pair it with a tool that writes meeting notes as Markdown. Peachy writes each meeting as a Markdown file directly into your vault folder.
- How do I get meeting transcripts into Obsidian?
- Point a tool that writes Markdown at your vault. Peachy records on your Mac and writes each meeting as a speaker-labeled Markdown file into a folder you choose, so it lands in Obsidian with no import step.
- Is there an Obsidian plugin for meeting transcription?
- Community plugins can sync notes in from cloud tools like Granola. Peachy needs no plugin: because your vault is a folder, it writes the meeting file straight into it.
- Will the notes have YAML frontmatter?
- Yes. Peachy writes each meeting with YAML frontmatter, so Obsidian properties and Dataview queries work out of the box.
- Can my own AI read the same notes?
- Yes. The vault is plain Markdown, so your Claude reads the same files over MCP, and any AI you point at the folder can use them.
Write meetings straight into your vault
Peachy writes every meeting as a Markdown file in a folder you own, ready for Obsidian and your AI. Free to download, yours to keep.